Malda, May 21: Two men from Assam carrying fake currency with a face value of Rs 5.85 lakh were arrested today, while three others trying to sell a 9mm pistol caught here yesterday evening.

Malda district police chief Satyajit Banerjee said the two men from Assam, Md Asif and Rafiqul Islam, had arrived here by the Kanchenjungha Express at 11.30pm yesterday and had put up at a hotel near the station. They had planned to leave by the Brahmaputra Mail this evening.

“They had with them 534 notes of Rs 1,000 and 100 five hundred denominations, given by an infiltrator from Bangladesh,” said the officer.